@Gnosis: But...Look at what YOU did about it...You jumped onto her FB page to see what she was doing, saw an update, then took the effort to search for a time-stamp, did a time difference calculation, deduced a value for the time-stamp... then became angry. So, with your aforementioned knowledge about her indifference to her children and only caring about "being free" while traveling (aside from sending you nasty-grams to push your buttons) the following remains: You actively sought reason to be angry with her. That does not sound like detachment to me.
Bad prose. All I meant there was that she'd been updating the FB page -- this I know because we have mutual friends, so I see her comments on their pages -- during the trip, so one could reasonably infer that the problem wasn't lack of connectivity -- that's all I was getting at. I hadn't specifically looked at it on the day, in other words -- I was simply aware that she was in possession of electrons.
@kara: I forgot to ask if you made the birthday cake.
Yes I did, and let me tell you -- frosting a cake is a lot dam harder than they make it sound in the Ladies Home Journal.... Making frosting is a lot dam harder than they make it sound, too! Yeah, I got your "beat until just fluffy" dangling! "Fluffy" -- what the !@^&*)#$_ hell is "fluffy"?
